The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy

ISBN-13: 9781108428842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 454 str.

Amy R. Bloch; Daniel M. Zolli

Opis

Comprising nineteen essays by top scholars and a comprehensive introduction, this book surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture in all its variety.

Recenzje

'This volume offers much new research and abundant riches, including 250 illustrations, many of them color plates. Specialists will discover much of interest and value in this varied cornucopia. The pictures alone make this a visual banquet worth attending … Highly recommended.' W. E. Wallace, Choice

Spis treści

Introduction – making and unmaking sculpture in fifteenth-century Italy Amy R. Bloch and Daniel M. Zolli; Part I. Surface Effects: 1. The color white in fifteenth-century Tuscan sculpture Una Roman D'Elia; 2. The colors of monochrome sculpture Frank Fehrenbach; 3. New light on Luca della Robbia's glazes Catherine Kupiec; Part II. Sculptural Bodies: 4. Donatello, Alberti, and the free-standing statue in fifteenth-century Florence Peter Jonathan Bell; 5. Francesco di Valdambrino's wood sculpture at the high altar of Siena Cathedral Ashley Elston; 6. Sculptural transformations in Quattrocento Italy Megan Holmes; Part III. Sculptural Norms, Made and Unmade: 7. The body, space, and narrative in Central and Northern Italian sculpture David J. Drogin; 8. Rethinking style in fifteenth-century Italian sculpture Robert Glass; 9. Bellano's invention at the Santo Sarah Blake McHam; Part IV. Sculpture as Performance: 10. Sculpture and sacrifice Adrian Randolph; 11. Illuminated sculpture and visionary experience at the Cardinal of Portugal Chapel in Florence Morgan Ng; 12. Tullio Lombardo, Antonio Rizzo, and sculptural audacity in Renaissance Venice Lorenzo G. Buonanno; Part V. Sculpture in the Expanded Field: 13. Stucco as substrate and surface in Quattrocento Florence (and Beyond) Yvonne Elet; 14. The punch marks on Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise: an intersection of economy and ritual Lauren Jacobi; 15. Relief effects in Donatello and Mantegna Henrike Lange; 16. Candelabra-columns and the Lombard architecture of sculptural assemblage Michael J. Waters; Part VI. Sculpture and history: 17. Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia Amy R. Bloch; 18. Virgil's forge Daniel M. Zolli; 19. Quattrocento perspectives on the historical value of sculpture Joost Keizer.